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Engineer Tara Scott in PPE at the Bletchley flyover, watching it being taken apart, nighttime
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World Engineering Day – Trackside Tara and 300 tonnes of concrete

4 March 2021 | 4 min read

We’re sharing some of our favourite engineering moments this World Engineering Day … … like when Trackside Tara found out…
Still from animation about why we carry out works on bank holidays - yellow machinery lays new track
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Why we carry out engineering works over bank holidays

18 February 2021 | 3 min read

We’re frequently asked why we schedule big engineering projects for bank holiday weekends. We plan these large-scale works for certain…

Video: Delays explained – landslips

4 February 2021 | 3 min read
Aerial shot of flooded fields surrounding the railway at Colwich

Network Rail helicopter reveals Storm Christoph’s impact on the railway

25 January 2021 | 4 min read

Latest technology to improve thousands of miles of biodiversity

21 January 2021 | 5 min read

What happens to signal boxes when they retire?

16 December 2020 | 4 min read